Xavier Becerra

Xavier Becerra (26 January 1958-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 30) from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 2003 (succeeding Matthew G. Martinez and preceding Henry Waxman), from CA 31 from 3 January 2003 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Hilda Solis and preceding Gary Miller), and from CA 34 from 3 January 2013 to 3 January 2017 (succeeding Lucille Roybal-Allard and preceding Jimmy Gomez). He went on to serve as Attorney General of California from 24 January 2017, succeeding Kamala Harris.

Biography
Xavier Becerra was born in Sacramento, California in 1958 to Mexican parents, and he worked as a lawyer in Massachusetts before serving as a deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice from 1987 to 1990, in the State Assembly from 1990 to 1992, and in the US House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017. In 2016, he was elected to succeed Kamala Harris as Attorney General of California.